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N 0 M 0 d e 1 I A .CLOTHES POUN DDDD l No. 492,774l Patented M l al t"/ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM G. BEAVER, OF HILLSBOROUGH, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR TWO-TI-IIRDS TO TAYLOR EVANS AND JOHN C. GARRISON, OFSAME PLACE.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 492,774, dated lVarch 7, 1893.

Application filed December 8. 1892. Serial No.4.54,476. (No model.)

.To a/ZZ whom it may concern: brought down upon the clothes, the airis com- Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. BEAVER, pressed and forced through the clothes, also 5o a citizen of the United States, residing at causing water to beforced through them. At

Hillsborough,in the county of Hill and State this time the intermediate cone ascends and 5 of Texas, have invented a new and useful Athas a movement from an eighth to a quarter mospheric Clothes-Founder, of which the folof an inch, and comesin contact with thelower lowing is a specification. y rim or edge ofthe cap and closes the same. 55

The invention relates to that class of wash- Water is forced over* the bowl up withinthe ing machines known as atmospheric clothes intermediate cone, and into the cap which ro pounders. forms an upper chamber when the pounder The object of the present invention is to is plunged into the water, whereby when the provide a clothes pounder which will inclose pounder islift-ed the intermediate conewill de- 6o a body of air and expel the same when it is scend, and the water will fall and pass through brought down upon the clothes forcing water the clothes. This action enables clothes to be I5 through the clothes and filling with water an quickly washed.

upper chamber, and which when lifted from, It will be seen that the clothes pounder is the clothes will release a body of water at the simple and inexpensive in. construct-ion, and 65 top of the pounder and cause water to pass effective in operation. through the clothes. I desire it to be understood that changes 2c The invention consists in the construction in the form, proportion and the minor details and novel combination and arrangement of of construction may be resorted to without parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated departing from the principle' or sacrificing 7o in the accompanying drawings and pointed any of the advantages of this invention. out in the claims hereto appended. What I claim is- 25 In the drawings-Figure I is aperspective l. A clothes pounder, comprising a stem, a view of a clothes pounder constructed in acrigid inverted bowl arranged at the lower end cordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a verof the stem, a rigi'dcap secured to the upper 75 tical sectional view. end of the stem, and an intermediate sliding Like numerals of reference indicate correcone mounted on the stem and arranged be- 3o spending parts in all thetigures of the drawtween the bowl and the cap and adapted to ings. close the latter to form anupper chamber,

l designates a tubular stemv receiving a substantially as described. y handle 2, and provided at its lower end with 2. A clothes pounder, comprising a stem, an inverted bowl 3 and having mounted on it adapted to receive a handle, an inverted cy- 35 a rigid cap 4 and an intermediate cone 5 havlindrical bowl arranged at the lower end of ing a limited sliding movement on the stem. the stem and rigidly connected therewith, a The bowl 3 is substantially cylindrical, and rigid cap having a conical upper portion and 85 f the handle is secured at the lower end of the a cylindrical lower portion and arranged at stem by a perforated disk 6 and a screw, and the top of the stem, and asliding cone mount- 4o at the top of the stem by a transverse screw. ed on the stern between the bowl and the cap,

The cap 4 consists of a conical upper-portion substantially as described. Y 7 and a cylindrical lower portion S, and it is In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 9o r provided at the apex of the cone with an upmy ownI have hereto affixed my signature in wardly extending tubular socket 9, which fits the presence of two witnesses.

45 on the stem 1. WILLIAM G. BEAVER.

The intermediate movable cone is provided Witnesses: at its'apex with a tubular extension lO tit- THOs. J. ALLEN, ting on the stem; and when the pounder is MILLARD F. WINFREY. 

